Child&#39;s swivel harness



March 9, 1948. B. ZIMMERN CHILDS SWIVEL HARNESS Filed July 24, 1946 2Sheets-Sheet I INVENTOR Bennq Zimmern.

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k I AT I'OIftKY March 9, 1948. B. ZIMMERN CHILDS SWIVEL HARNESS FiledJuly 24, 1.946 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 'INVENTOR Benno Zz'mmern ATTORNEPatented Mar. 9, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHILDS SWIVEL HARNESSBenno Zimmern, New York, N. Y.

Application July 24, 1946, Serial No. 686,028

2 Claims. 1

My invention relates to safety harness for retaining a child in acarriage or chair.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a harness for a childthat will permit the child to rotate or move laterally within certainlimits between fixed supports without tightening the belt around thechild or causing any slack to appear in the harness.

Other objects are to provide a belt for a child, and retaining meanstherefor. which is self-adjust'able with respect to said belt; toprovide limiting means on said belt for limiting the amount ofself-adjustment of the retaining means; to provide a suspenderarrangement for said belt which is convertible into a leash forretaining the child while walking; to provide a harness which is readilyremovable from the carriage or chair; and to provide a belt harness fora child wherein the means for opening the belt is not accessible to thechild.

I accomplish these and other objects and obtain my new results as willbe apparent from the device described in the following specification,particularly pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my child harness;

Fig. 2 is a similar View illustrating the harness secured to a carriage,and the position of the parts when the child has pulled to one side;

Fig. 3 is a similar view indicating the position of the parts when thechild has pulled to the opposite direction.

Fig. 4 is a similar view of the harness with suspender arrangementopened to form a leash;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the belt buckle and adjacent parts;

Fig. 6 is a view of the opened suspender.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, reference numeral ldesignates a belt held in position by a pair of retaining elements I iand i2 operating through the turning harness I3.

The belt I0 comprises the strap l4 provided with an end tab l forpreventing the end of the strap from fraying, which belt encircles thechilds Waist, and terminates in the buckle l5, to which it is secured bylooping the end I? of the strap through the buckle bar I8, of thebuckle, and riveting, as at Hi, to the end portion of the strap.

The strap thus is fixedly secured to one end of the buckle, and afterencircling the childs waist, is inserted into the buckle and detachablysecured thereto.

The turning harness l3 includes a loop section 20, one end 2| of whichis secured to rivet 2212 with the remaining end 22 looped around theoutside of belt H3 and riveted at 22a, the loop section having a lengthapproximately one-half of the circumference of the belt 40.

Two intermediate rivets 23 and 24 divide the outside loop section 20into three loop sections 25,

26 and 21. Within the end loop sections 25 and 27, single rings 28 and29 are positioned, and in the middle loop section 26 a double ring 30 ispositioned.

The end turning harness I3 is secured to single rings 28 and 29 bylooping the ends of the strap therethrough, and riveting as at 3| and32, passing the strap through the double ring 39.

Each of the retaining elements II and I2 are provided with straps 33 and34, respectively, having end tabs 35 and 36, buckles 31 and 38, springhooks 39 and 40 secured to rings 4| and 42, positioned in strap loops 43and 44a formed by the rings 28, 29 and 30 secured to strap 20.

Straps 33 and 34 are looped through the carriage supports 44 and 45 forattaching the safety harness in position on the carriage 46 as shown inFig. 2.

It will be apparent in the foregoing arrangement that I have provided achilds belt 10 which encircles a childs waist.

By employing a turning harness in connection with the belt, the child isable to rotate or turn without tightening or loosening about the child.

By my arrangement, the rings 28, 29 and 3!] swing within theirrespective loops 25, 21 and 26, the turning harness taking up the slackon the side the child turns and supplying the added length to theopposite side of the child, through the ring 30.

In Fig. 2, the turning harness is shown in position upon the belt beingmoved to the left, while in Fig. 3 the turning harness has been adjustedby the movement of the belt to accommodate a movement to the right.

In Fig. 2, the harness is shown connected to a suspender top 50, havinga. closed loop 5! at one end thereof, and an open loop 52 at theremaining end employing the buckle 53.

In attaching the suspender to the belt, the belt buckle I5 is opened,and loop 5| placed over the belt. The suspender is then looped throughring 30 of the turning harness, which has a top slot 36a for thispurpose. The loop 52 is thereafter positioned on the belt I4 and bucklesi6 and 53 of the belt and suspender adjusted to the proper position.

The suspender may be used as a leash by unbuckling the loop 52 andremoving the loop 5| from the belt, and the suspender from the ring 30through the unlooped end of the suspender. The looped end 5| becomes ahand engaging loop, and the buckled end of the suspender may be securedto any part of the belt or ring 30, as shown in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 5, the end 2| of loop section 20 is shown directly connected tothe belt at rivet IS, instead of rivet Zia, thus eliminating a rivetoperation.

I have thus described my invention, but I desire it understood that itis not confined to the particular forms or uses shown and described, thesame being merely illustrative, and that the invention may be carriedout in other ways without departing from the spirit of my invention,and, therefore, I claim broadly the right to employ all equivalentinstrumentalities coming within the scope of the appended claims, and bymeans of which, objects of my invention are attained and new resultsaccomplished, as it is obvious that the particular embodiments hereinshown and described are only some of the many that can be employed toattain these objects and accomplish these results.

What is claimed is;

l. A childs harness comprising a belt for encircling a childs waist andprovided with means for securing together the ends of the belt; aturning harness secured to said belt and retaining means for lateralsecurement of the turning harness to fixed points of support, saidturning harouter rings each secured to an end loop and movable therein,the central ring secured to the intermediate loop, and the twointermediate rings secured to the retaining means for attachment tofixed points of support, said outer and intermediate rings movable withrespect to their loop sections, and said intermediate and central ringsmovable with respect to the retaining strap section.

BENNO ZIMMERN.

REFERENCES GIE The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNLIED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,697,363 Losey Jan. 1, 19292,212,746 Nunn Aug. 27, 1940 2,308,466 Johnson Jan, 12, 1943

